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Monday, March 10, 2014

Week 31: There are 2 parts to the Atonement or the Grace of Christ.

This week I learned that Canadian Quarters don't work in
laundry machines. We went to the bank to
get quarters and one of them was a Canadian one. Funny story to tell I guess.

Much about me has changed. I recently looked back on some of the things
that I was doing in High school and before my mission and am wondering why I
ever would do such a thing. I am glad
that my focus and my desires are becoming more Christ like. I still have a long ways to go yet, but I am
starting to realize the true purpose of life. That is to progress to become like Christ. I have learned a lot. We all have weaknesses, but that shouldn't
stop us from working at them constantly and consistently to rely on Christ and
become better. I use Christ's Atonement every
day to help overcome weaknesses and bring others truth.

There are 2 parts to the Atonement or the Grace of
Christ. The forgiveness of sins and
Strengthening and enabling power. Christ
gives us strength when all other sources cease to be a comfort. He helps us all the way, not just when we
think we need it. This has helped me a
lot to overcome any problem that comes. There
still are a lot, but they are less of a burden and more of an opportunity to learn.

We've been teaching Sister Ose temple preparation class
so that she can go to the temple more prepared. She is excited to go and we are glad she is so
willing to do so.

We have a new investigator named Marie Hagen who has
agreed to be baptized. She has come to
Church twice and really enjoys it. She
is really prepared to receive the Gospel.

Friday was Zone Training Meeting. It was a little different because it was the
same amount of people as Zone Conferences. Previously in my mission, we only had multi
zone conferences because the Pierre Zone was so small (8 sets of missionaries).
We traveled and had Zone conferences in
Rapid City. Here though, we just traveled
to Fargo and there was only one Zone. So
Zone Training Meeting was just the same size as the Conference. It was very enlightening and has helped us in
preparing for how to teach people and find people to teach.

On Saturday we ran into someone who was able to tell us
the exact date he was saved. It was
interesting. He asked us when we were
saved by accepting Christ as our personal savior and we replied
"Everyday". It was interesting
that he wanted an exact date from us. Afterwards Elder Smith told me he was thinking
about telling the guy the day he was baptized.